“How are we and all Christians in Europe to receive the Word of God, when aggression and war have broken out in Ukraine, on European soil?” – Bishop Noel Treanor
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Father Manuel Barrios Prieto, the new Secretary General of COMECE (The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union), says European Bishops are working to put human dignity at the forefront of policy decisions in Brussels. COMECE represents the...
In his opening speech to the COMECE Autumn Plenary Assembly, which is taking place in Brussels from 26-28 October, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the President of COMECE, said that the Church wanted to make a contribution to help the European Union to overcome the...
The Caritas Europa Conference 2016 took place in Lourdes this week from 23 to 26 May. Over 300 people, from 42 European countries, including Irish representative, Colm Hogan from Trócaire, gathered at the conference to discuss the state of family and child poverty,...
The soul of Europe is in fact greater than the present borders of the Union and is called to become a model of new syntheses and of dialogue. - Pope Francis
The COMECE Bishops have nominated Brother Oliver Poquillon OP as their new General Secretary for a three year mandate. Brother Poquillon, who is Prior of the Dominican Convent of Saint Pierre Martyr in Strasbourg, will take up his new post in a few months. Irish...